Mystery Scene Mag

In her Dead End Jobs series, Elaine Viets has her character Helen Hawthorne live off the grid by taking a series of jobs with no future, little money and even less respect. To research these novels, Viets herself works at the same jobs. In the name of deep...

A couple of weeks ago, my husband and I picked up an old college friend at Port Everglades, following a cruise. Over lunch, we talked college, of course, friends in common and travel. The year before she had gone to Peru and had explored the ruins of Machu...